Pick of the Week Podcast

05.30.2010 – Episode #236 – Thunderbolts #144

Show Notes

Running Time: 01:00:00

May 30, 2010 – With Josh Flanagan out lobstering in Maine (and possibly harvesting sea urchins), the hardest working staff writer in comics, Paul Montgomery stepped up to join Conor Kilpatrick and Ron Richards for comic book fun time talk. And boy, did he pick a doozy of a week, with two big Avengers launches and one of the weirdest books that anyone has heard of in a long time.

Comics:
00:01:56 – Ron loves a good "getting the team together" comic, and the Pick of the Week, Thunderbolts #144, was just that.
00:10:04 – Ron and Paul loved the heck out of Thanos Imperative: Ignition #1.
00:13:08 – Secret Avengers #1 was fun, but there were a few "but"s.
00:15:49 – Justice League: Rise of Arsenal #3 was… just… bizarre…
00:21:26 – After Amazing Spider-Man #632 we are all now believers in Bachalo.
00:24:26 – One of Ron and Conor's favorite books makes a brief return in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #37.
00:25:22 – Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne #2 is smart and fun.
00:27:36 – Ron says to ignore the nay-sayers, X-Force #27 rocked.
00:28:51 – There was one great thing and one not so great thing in Fantastic Four #579.
00:30:26 – Dazzler #1 made Ron happy and he thinks he's discovered a new favortie artist.
00:32:21 – Was Choker #3 the best issue since the first… but the delay hurt.
00:33:36 – Paul made a nice discovery in Mystery Society #1.

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you guys should always make a point to discuss atleast one hilariously bad and or bizarre random comic every week. Last week sentry: fallen son, this week rise of arsenal. next week, who knows? But I want to have a small collection of those type of comics that I would never otherwise buy if not for the podcasts.

I can see how Thunderbolts would get pick of the week. I’m just kind of shocked that the group was made by committee and not Captain Steve Rogers telling him who to put on the team. And how long do you think it’ll be before we’re calling him Cap’n Steve?

@Mart — There was one point, after Zero-Hour, when they turned the Half-Thanagarian, Half-Native American Katar Hol (of Truman’s Hawkworld) into a Hawk "Avatar" who actually had yellow eyes and real wings that could pop out of his back. His series ended within a year or so of that change and the character went into limbo until the Carter Hawkman came back in JSA (I think that’s right).

They did… I loved the character (starting with Truman’s Hawkworld and thru Ostrander’s Hawkworld and Hawkman), so I kept sticking it out through the avatar stuff, hoping it would get better. And actually, there was a little 2 or 3 parter written by Priest and drawn by Howard Porter that finished off the series that was actually pretty decent for its time. I remember being sad that it was ending just as it had a glimmer of hope.

Yes, I’m sadly one of the few people who CAN explain Hawkman’s horribly tangled continuity. I just… please, don’t make me. **hangs head in shame**